Jendeley – JSON-based document organizing software
I created jendeley to help organize documents for programmers. - jendeley is JSON-based. You can see and edit your database quickly. - jendeley works locally. Your important database is owned only by you. No cloud. - jendeley is browser-based. You can run it anywhere node.js runs. Repository: https://github.com/akawashiro/jendeley
Jendeley – JSON-based document organizing software launched on February 10, 2023 with 85 votes, #623 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
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Jendeley is a JSON-based document organizer designed for programmers who want to manage research and reference materials locally. It runs as a browser application on Node.js environments and stores all data in JSON format, allowing users to view and edit their database directly without relying on cloud services. The tool keeps documents and metadata under the user's complete control.
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jendeley is a JSON-based document organizing software.
As programmers, we need various documents in different formats, such as recent machine learning papers, classic compiler books, CPU and accelerator specification documents, programming language documents, and informative blog articles. To efficiently manage these documents, it’s essential to categorize and classify them. Additionally, we need to ensure that they are saved and accessible long-term, as we never know when we need them. To address these challenges, I developed jendeley . It allows you to register both PDFs and webpages in the same database, making categorization easy through the use of tags. Moreover, the database is stored as a plain text JSON file, making it easily editable…from akawashiro.github.io
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